Miscellaneous health services

Tender description

NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group (S&FCCG) is made up of local doctors, nurses, and practice staff, who are well placed to know the health needs and views of people living in the area. S&FCCG envisage appropriate, co-ordinated care for patients via integrated services and responsiveness to patients’ needs, while ensuring the best possible use of resources, avoiding fragmentation of services and reducing the complexity of the patient journey. NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group brings together 19 doctors' surgeries covering an area stretching from Ince Blundell in the south to Churchtown in the north with a population size of 125 000. SFCCG know from speaking to local people that they really value the care they receive from GP practices and community services, provided close to where they live. SFCCG believe there are great benefits in wrapping services around their local communities in an integrated way to really focus on their health needs. SFCCG see a variety of professionals from across health and social care playing a greater role in these locality multidisciplinary teams. SFCCG believe this model is capable of making improvements in all the priority areas they have set out in their 5-year strategy: ‘Sefton2gether – Shaping Sefton II’ and their blueprint for transforming services, benefiting all Southport and Formby residents, no matter what their age or differing health needs. Southport and Formby CCG envisage appropriate, co-ordinated care for patients via integrated services and responsiveness to patients’ needs, while ensuring the best possible use of resources, avoiding fragmentation of services and reducing the complexity of the patient journey. Southport and Formby CCG's vision aims to create a sustainable healthy community based on health needs, with partners; focused on delivering high quality and integrated care services to all, to improve the health and well-being of their population. The initial contract is envisaged to be for 5 years with the option to extend for 1 x 24-month periods.